Antiracist healthcare? with Prof Ibram X. Kendi

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Abdul dissects health inequities to understand why America’s focus on healthcare rather than public health is part of the problem. Then he speaks with Professor Ibram X. Kendi, author of the New York Times Bestseller “How to be an Anti-Racist” about taking on racism in public health and healthcare. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.

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0:00.0	Texas passes one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, banning abortions
0:11.6	after six weeks, and empowering anyone to sue a provider if they hear about an abortion
0:15.7	in the state.
0:16.7	This comes amid a wave of assaults on reproductive rights across states.
0:21.4	New corn mitosis, or black fungus infection, is emerging as a concern among people with
0:25.9	COVID-19 in India.
0:27.8	A leader of Gaza's COVID-19 task force was killed, and its COVID-19 testing facilities
0:32.1	were destroyed in airstrikes by Israel, as cases of COVID-19 begin to tick upward.
0:37.1	This is America Dissected.
0:38.1	I'm your host, Dr. Krabb, who will I'll say of.
0:40.9	A few weeks ago, we had the privilege of hearing from representative Corey Bush, a nurse
0:51.5	turned Black Lives Matter activist, turned Congresswoman from Missouri's First District.
0:55.9	We talked about her fight for Black Lives from the bedside to the bullhorn to the buildings
0:59.7	that house American power.
1:01.7	She shared her own experiences, having her health concerns ignored by healthcare professionals.
1:05.8	I remember I went to the regular doctor visit, and I kept saying something is wrong, and
1:10.8	the doctor was like, oh no you're fine.
1:12.4	And I said, oh no, no, something is wrong.
1:14.4	You have a sign on your wall that says, if you feel something is wrong, something is wrong,
1:17.6	tell your provider, I'm telling you something is wrong.
1:20.0	She said, oh no you're fine.
1:21.3	And she waved me off and a week later, I was in the emergency room.
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